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Exhibit 1152

Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act)

Exhibit 1152 ยท Regulation

Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act)

the Commission may impose on the provider of the very large online platform or of the very large online search engine concerned fines not exceeding 6 % of its total worldwide annual turnover in the preceding financial year

Article 9 makes providers act on orders from national judicial or administrative authorities against specific illegal content. Article 34(1) requires very large platforms to assess systemic risks, which include 'any actual or foreseeable negative effects on civic discourse and electoral processes, and public security' (point (c)), and Article 35 requires mitigation measures. Article 25 prohibits deceptive interface design. Article 74(1) lets the Commission fine a very large platform up to 6 percent of total worldwide annual turnover. Article 22 gives priority to notices from certified trusted flaggers.

Source
European Parliament and Council of the European Union
Date
19 October 2022
Quoted from
Article 74(1)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32022R2065
Accessed
2026-11-10
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Finding INF-4.10
Primary record On 12 August 2024 Commissioner Breton wrote to X's owner that the European Commission would not hesitate to make full use of its toolbox, including interim measures, and on 18 February 2025 the Commission wrote that the Digital Services Act does not regulate speech. The Commission's first non-compliance decision under the Act, against X on 5 December 2025, fined X 120 million euros for blue-checkmark design, its advertising repository and researcher data access, and did not concern the removal of any post.